The earliest form of "armor" were horse driven units like the Chariot and later the Knight, this also includes the War Elephant. This is merely a defensive manoeuvre which has proven very effective and could be counted as "armor" considering the fact that they wear iron armor and when they combine in this formation they are though to crack, thus they are armor :)

torquere = "to hurl smth"
torques means pretty much every roman siege weapon.
i'd say their mobile siege towers were the real 'tanks' because they ussually had a ballista inside it and they were plated with wood or iron and sometimes they added wet animal skins to avoid flaming arrows.
here you got armor and firepower

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Hi,thought this was pretty Funny but true.The Roman Army used this formation was used for centuries.the (testudo-formation).Any thoughts on this, would be interesting.Does anyone have more Roman photos?